If JMU goes to the SBC all-sports, do we lose "prestige"? I mean that most of the schools in the CAA are far better academically than any school in the SBC. Disregard Towson and ODU, of course. However, I'm not sure the addition of Albany or Stony Brook or the College of Charleston help either.
So My question is, do we lose prestige and gain more relevance by moving to the SBC, or keep our prestige and lose any hope of national relevance by remaining in the CAA?

I don't think anyone has ever gained relevance by joining the Sun Belt.

(04-10-2013 01:00 PM)Pitz Wrote:  I don't think anyone has ever gained relevance by joining the Sun Belt.

Yes, we'll be much better off in the burnt out shell of the CAA. That's the path to prominence! Who cares if we lose more teams and don't even maintain a basketball autobid? Screw it. CAA for life!

(04-10-2013 12:57 PM)JMUDDOG Wrote:  If JMU goes to the SBC all-sports, do we lose "prestige"? I mean that most of the schools in the CAA are far better academically than any school in the SBC. Disregard Towson and ODU, of course. However, I'm not sure the addition of Albany or Stony Brook or the College of Charleston help either.
So My question is, do we lose prestige and gain more relevance by moving to the SBC, or keep our prestige and lose any hope of national relevance by remaining in the CAA?

Found this on the SBU website. Take it for what you will...

London Times Higher Education World University Rankings:
Ranked in the top 1 percent of all universities in the world

U.S.News & World Report
54th “Best Public University” in the United States
111th “Best National University”

U.S. News & World Report: America’s Best Graduate Schools
Ranks 13 of Stony Brook University’s graduate programs and six subspecialty fields among the top 50 programs in the nation, including: nuclear physics (4), geometry (6), clinical psychology (9), American politics (20), physics (23), mathematics (24), computer science (44), political science (33), and sociology (41). An additional six programs ranked in the top 100.

Chronicle of Higher Education
Ranked in the top 20 of the most productive research universities in the nation
4 departments are ranked in the top ten in the Chronicle’s list of Top Research Universities Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index: Applied Mathematics (7), Developmental Biology (7), Marine Sciences (10), and Structural Biology (7)

SB by the Numbers
1,900 Faculty
1,500 Inventions
450 U.S. Patents
102 Master’s Programs
43 Doctoral Programs
3 Nobel Prizes
2 State-designated Centers for Advanced Technology

First, SBU is a much more prestigious university than JMU. It is a well respected national research university. JMU is a well respected regional university. Big difference. Secondly, I have to think that by joining the SBC, JMU's "prestige" will take a hit. Those are some bottom of the barrel schools. It would be like joining a conference with 10 ODUs.

yea....SBU is a member of the AAU.

Pretty darn good school.

(04-10-2013 01:06 PM)rufus Wrote:  

(04-10-2013 01:00 PM)Pitz Wrote:  I don't think anyone has ever gained relevance by joining the Sun Belt.

Yes, we'll be much better off in the burnt out shell of the CAA. That's the path to prominence! Who cares if we lose more teams and don't even maintain a basketball autobid? Screw it. CAA for life!

Ah hell, who gave rufus a link to the new board?

(04-10-2013 02:14 PM)Pitz Wrote:  

(04-10-2013 01:06 PM)rufus Wrote:  

(04-10-2013 01:00 PM)Pitz Wrote:  I don't think anyone has ever gained relevance by joining the Sun Belt.

Yes, we'll be much better off in the burnt out shell of the CAA. That's the path to prominence! Who cares if we lose more teams and don't even maintain a basketball autobid? Screw it. CAA for life!

Ah hell, who gave rufus a link to the new board?

I lol'd.

(04-10-2013 02:14 PM)Pitz Wrote:  

(04-10-2013 01:06 PM)rufus Wrote:  

(04-10-2013 01:00 PM)Pitz Wrote:  I don't think anyone has ever gained relevance by joining the Sun Belt.

Yes, we'll be much better off in the burnt out shell of the CAA. That's the path to prominence! Who cares if we lose more teams and don't even maintain a basketball autobid? Screw it. CAA for life!

Ah hell, who gave rufus a link to the new board?

I've been here for years! Different board, same rufus. Welcome aboard.

(04-10-2013 03:44 PM)rufus Wrote:  I've been here for years!

Rockin' your peers?

I thought C of C was fairly well regarded academically as well. I don't know that for sure, but don't get it mixed up with Coastal Carolina, which is another ODU.

(04-10-2013 06:31 PM)BleedingPurple Wrote:  I though C of C was fairly well regarded academically as well. I don't know that for sure, but don't get it mixed up with Coastal Carolina, which is another ODU.

You are correct.